Features
Hardcover: 187 pages
Publisher: Collins Design August 1, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 006089346X
ISBN-13: 978-0060893460
Product Dimensions:
12.1 x 9.3 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Book Description
Cutting-edge architecture and design meets mouthwatering cuisine in Restaurants by Design. Featuring exciting spaces from around the world, this fascinating guide explores the collaborate efforts between world-renowned chefs and some of today's most visionary architects and interior designers. This book examines the particular design approach used in each eatery, from the layout and structure of the physical space to designs for the dishes, linens, lighting, and furnishings, and how they all complement and highlight the food.
These restaurants emphasize custom interiors to ensure their patrons are completely immersed in their dinning experience. With full-color illustrations throughout, Restaurants by Design is a must-have for those with an appetite for both good food and good design.
About The Author
John Riordan is an architect and writer. His passions for food and design have led him to restaurants worldwide. He lives in Washington D.C., where he subjects his friends and family to culinary designs of his own at home.
Reader Reviews
The designs of restaurants is non-trivial. Not only must the design be pleasing to the eye and attractive to the customers, but the flow of the workers, the food, and the dirty dishes must work well. The result says this book is that a restaurant must be considered as a theater where the food is the show. This book illustrates twenty one of the most striking and original designs of recent years. Most of the featured restaurants are in the United States, but all over the US from New York to Las Vegas, to Portland, Oregon. But there are also restaurants from Japan, The Netherlands, France, and Mexico. Basically this is an idea book that can provide new thoughts on the restaurant you are designing or buying. There is very little description, it is mostly photographs to show what was done in these sites. The pictures and the printing are both excellent and show the state of the art as it exhists in restaurant design.
